mingw-clingons [Was: Re: string.h vs string.h usage]

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:38:54PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>Apart from above, I have no concerns with a do-nothing strings.h.
>>Please, however, refrain from adding in sys/params.h, sys/resource.h,
>>termio.h, etc.  The ACT distro of mingw did that and it means that much
>>code written for the ACT version (including the code needed to build
>>the gnat compiler) needs surgery to get rid of unprotected #include
>><sys/params.h>, etc that aren't really needed on mingw after all.
>
>I only agreed to add strings.h because strcasecmp was an add-on (not in
>MSVCRT.DLL or CRTDLL.DLL) and the documentation for it says it belongs
>in strings.h.  I agree that this should not be a precedent that is used
>to decide to add others.

Ok, it's entirely your call.

And it makes sense, in retrospect since you're adding to the standard Win32
environment.  Which is pretty much what Egor was suggesting, I think.

So, my rant is penitently withdrawn.

cgf